Elfgame was written as part of the Icon0clasm Ball. Its premises are wide open: “This jam challenges you instead to make something novel; to deface the memory of this text (the original RPG game) with concepts untenable to the Gygaxian imagination; to resurrect this corpse into a new body.”

As such, we attempted to create a retroclone that is as far away as possible from its inspirations, without compromising its retrocompatibility:

There’s no class; no races; no ability scores; no XP for gold; no THAC0; no descending AC; one resistance instead of five saving throws; no Vancian magic; no thief skills or Listen rolls; no initiative tests; no hermetic text…